To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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