He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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