There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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 obscurest epoch is today.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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