If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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