Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for 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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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.
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