The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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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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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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