The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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