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A friend is a gift you give yourself.  
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a wi...  
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can...  
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute...  
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...  
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probabl...  
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.  
Everyone lives by selling something.  
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a f...  
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for trav...  
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courag...  
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is...  
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.  
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forg...  
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.  
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. Th...  
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of suc...  
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friends...  
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do no...  
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eye...  
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon me...   Nature
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospe...  
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.  
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.  
Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others.  
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by cat...  
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people,...  
No man is useless while he has a friend.  
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispe...  
Nothing like a little judicious levity.  
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we mak...  
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?  
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but ...  
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in goo...  
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sust...  
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is th...  
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or ...  
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indi...  
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I woul...  
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.  
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselv...  
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.  
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you me...  
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply t...  
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.  
The obscurest epoch is to-day.  
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.  
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the ...  
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an ...  
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as ...  
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.  
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was t...  
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: th...   Life
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is t...  
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.  
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the w...  
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.  
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.  
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.  
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we...  
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading ...  
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quali...  
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so wit...  
Wine is bottled poetry.  
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.  
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or ...