To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere 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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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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For my part, 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 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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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