Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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