The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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The 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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