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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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.
Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.