To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Every 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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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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