You can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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