I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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