The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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