The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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