The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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