There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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For 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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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