Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep 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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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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 know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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