So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a 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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The world has no room for cowards.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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