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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

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

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

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

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...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...