We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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