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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.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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