The world has no room for cowards.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEven 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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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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