Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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