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 I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. 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.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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.
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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 indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I`m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I`ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Every one lives by selling something.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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 boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It`s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Don`t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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Trivia
Father of Venetia Stevenson.
Former journalist.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 1057-1063. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
Studied at St John`s College, University of Cambridge, England and was elected as President of the renowned Cambridge Union Society for the Easter Term, 1928.
Is the only director to be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for directing a Disney movie.
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