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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
The world has no room for cowards.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
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.
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 travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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