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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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 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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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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 think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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