Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThat man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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 I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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