The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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 obscurest epoch is today.
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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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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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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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