There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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