Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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