That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf 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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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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