If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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.
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauties, nor failed to express it who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had whose life is an inspiration whose memory a benediction.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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