Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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