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HENRY N. BEARD
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JANE BIRKIN
No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...
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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his b...
THOMAS S. SZASZ
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ...
IAN RANKIN
What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu...
ROBERT PINSKY
Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we kill. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
BILL WATTERSON
Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE
You can break my body but never my spirit because that's graced by God.
VERONICA PURCELL
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which ...
BIBLE
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
FRED HAMPTON
The sensation that you experience in the body, is your spirit, but it’s so attached, that it’s h...
ROSHAN SHARMA
I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside...
JARED LETO
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING
Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation witho...
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
Success and the pursuit of it can nourish your body, but only significance has the ability to nouris...
MENSAH OTEH
The condition of the physical body can affect the spirit.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
We must be vigilant, even of each other, but mostly of ourselves. What my time in the cave taught me...
VIET THANH NGUYEN
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward...
VALERIE ANN WORWOOD
It's amazing what the body can adapt to & the spirit can endure, when to adapt & endure are the only...
ANGEL DYKES
I kill myself for my body
CHER
You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and m...
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY
Move deep in your sensation, and you will realize the spirit in the body. Your life is possible only...
ROSHAN SHARMA
All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON
I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Joh...
CEELO GREEN
Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ...
MOTHER TERESA
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body,...
WASSILY KANDINSKY
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - b...
WILL OLDHAM
I know that
On the store there is real
And fake

Viagra.... both can kill youx ...
DEYTH BANGER
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
MEDGAR EVERS
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
MEG WHITMAN
Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The body power;The body never respect the personality wearing her ,for her sole mission in life is j...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The human body is a strange & unreligious being,for it thrives on variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
WHY DRUGS ASSIST IN HEALING THE BODY;Drugs works in the body because the body is also made up of che...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my...
MAHATMA GANDHI
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his...
RICHARD SELZER
Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
BIBLE
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
SA'DI
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
SAADI
If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
MARTY RUBIN
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twic...
DAMIAN MARLEY
Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.
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The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, i...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?”
“You have a lot to learn about the world, b...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE
Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, s...
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR
In other words, the very man Robert Kennedy recruited to kill Fidel Castro hired his brother's murde...
WILFRIED HUISMANN
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
THE DOORS
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
The body only profits a little from exercising but the spirit profits a lot.
BILLY BLANKS
The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not ...
JOSEPH FABRY
Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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… an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says,...
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Kill the body and the head will die.
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MATT DENTLER
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body i...
BILL NELSON
His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES
According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your bod...
DANIEL HOWELL
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditione...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
CAROLINE MYSS
Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Having a conscience is a survival trait for the spirit, though not always for the body.
RAIN BOJANGLES
Do not defile your body. It is a temple for the Holy spirit to dwell.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA
You can choose to disrespect me but I will not give you permission to hurt my spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976....
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER
You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is oppo...
ARVO PäRT
We lost the man in body but we didn't lose him in spirit. So I'm relying on his spirit to take care ...
TOM WATSON
Miho. You're an angel. You're a saint. You're a blessing from above. You're Mother Theresa. You're G...
FRANK MILLER
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of th...
MARTHA GRAHAM
We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howl...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold...
TAYA KYLE
If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
DAN BROWN
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
RASHIDA JONES
Words can kill few People, But silence can kill everyone
AANCHAL BHATEJA
One can stay within the legal rules, but not completely comply with the spirit,
CHARLIE MCCREEVY
Our body is the temple of our spirit.
GEORGE W. ROMNEY
Your body is temple of the holy spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is usele...
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The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your fe...
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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 b...
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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images ...
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it com...
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its st...
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves...
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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have call...
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-b...
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made...
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets ...
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Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credi...
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never s...
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddh...
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
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The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her ...
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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad...
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
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Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of differ...
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost ind...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an...
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of...
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end,...
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
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His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and...
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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indis...
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Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duti...
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and bo...
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You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
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It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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...
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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
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No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
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Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
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Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
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Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
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By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
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I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
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I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
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To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
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Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
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Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
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