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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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