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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Ling Love Other Serve So
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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Avoid Correct Eye Friend Kill Nothing Say Silence Transgreed
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquet Consequence Down Everyone Later Sit Sooner
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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All Being Commingled Evil Good Human Out
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Enemy Friend Readiest Suppress Truth Weapon
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Absence Bright Delicate Gppd Influence Keep Love
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Before Heaven Long Thing Us Well
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Have Pleasant Ten Thing Toe Young
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Hopefully Thing Travel
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Business Continue Fall Good Life Our Spirit Success
The world has no room for cowards.
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Coward No Room World
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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All Ashamed Know Our Parliament
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Being Duty Happy No Underrate
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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Little More See Shadow Out Use
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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Expect Scream Sometimes Surprise Sweep Theory Torrent
Everyone lives by selling something.
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Everyone Live One Liner Sell Something
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Action Appear Good Inevitable Mark Retrospect
I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Divine Down Father Glad Honor Human Least Shall
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Eye Keep Mercy Open
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Alive Amen Humble Instead Know Ought Prefer Soul Tell
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Cathedral Happy Inspire Made Mankind never So
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Liberty Money Pay Price Sometimes
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Could Else Joke One People Read Share Some Want Yourself
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Brute Force Last Made Nothing
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Day Each Harvest Judge Plant Reep Seed
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Disquisition Follow Forgive People Philosophical Through

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