Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for 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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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