You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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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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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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