Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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