To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

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

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it...

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it...

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what...

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what...