The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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