“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
Life“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.”
Good“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
Life“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”
Courage“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
Good“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.”
Great“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
Good“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
Gardening“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Travel“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
Best“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Business“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
Motivational“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Great“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
Good“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
Good“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.”
Nature“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.”
Art“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
Health“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
Marriage“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
Money“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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