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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery 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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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