There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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