All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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