Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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