Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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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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 idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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