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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

I wish these flies would piss off.

Youth is wholly experimental.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night.

Thems that die'll be the lucky ones.

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer made my mate.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese
toasted mostly.

All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do - All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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.

We can only know others by ourselves.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Dead men don't bite

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

Well!' I said. 'And suppose I had come round after?'
'I like you more better now,' said she.

Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.

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.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried.

And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face ...

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;

Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson

Time which none can bind,
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Take care of each other.

Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter?

Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear.

15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak.

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

but you're as smart as paint.

ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.

Cruel children, crying babies,
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces.

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.

...I'll stake my wig there's fever here.

Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Make up your mind to be happy.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Nobody more welcome than yourself,

If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he

But a word once spoken who can recapture it?

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.