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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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You cannot run away from awareness; you must some time fight it out or perish. And if you be so, why not now and where you stand?

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The world has no room for cowards.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

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Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish -- even I (I say) if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me. The wonder was rather that they had ever guessed my pitiful illusion, and taken the trouble to come back. I had starved with cold and hunger on that island for close upon one hundred hours. But for the fishers, I might have left my bones there, in pure folly. And even as it was, I had paid for it pretty dear, not only in past sufferings, but in my present case; being clothed like a beggar-man, scarce able to walk, and in great pain of my sore throat. I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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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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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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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 shal...

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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

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