The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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