Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in 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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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