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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Become Capable End Life Only
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Ancestor Arboreal Each Probably Sit Top Tree
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Before Heaven Long Thing Us Well
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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Friendship Marriage One Liner Police Recognize
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Dead Find Hearer Language Prepare Speech Spoken Until Willing Written
Wine is bottled poetry.
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Bottle Poetry Wine
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Best Cheap Compromise Lawyer
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Business Continue Fall Good Life Our Spirit Success
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Baby Buddhist Feel Impression Make Our Own Same Vegetarian Yet
Quiet 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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Clock During Fortune Frighten Mind Misfortune Pace Private Quite
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Courage Fera Keep Other Share Yourself
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Being Duty Happy No Underrate
I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Divine Down Father Glad Honor Human Least Shall
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
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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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Afterward Destiny Fatigue Lay Shall Thankfulness Turn Weapon
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Among Country Good Idea Make Moral Neighbor People Should
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Devil Gentlemen Sometimes Thing Very
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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Ambition Attempt Conceive Console Discourage Mediocre Most Pocket Wisdom
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Disquisition Follow Forgive People Philosophical Through
The obscurest epoch is today.
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Epoch Obscurest Today
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Another Conquer Curiosoty Mortify One Thing
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Century Glaringly Good Nineteenth People Person Pretty Well

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