Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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There 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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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