To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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