- Nov 07, 2020
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- Kings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
- Gentlemanly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
- Nov 07, 2020
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as we love, we serve; 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.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
- Kings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; 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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
To forget oneself is to be happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
- Degeneration
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- Nov 07, 2020
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
- Grand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world has no room for cowards.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Being Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. 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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
- Grown Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
- Hurry
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
- Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone lives by selling something.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Devotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Gaiety
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
- Another
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is useless while he has a friend.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
- Nov 07, 2020