"You can kill the body, but not the spirit."
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"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly."
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"We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm."
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"When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home."
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"Make up your mind to be happy."
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"The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age."
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"Sit loosely in the saddle."
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"Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different."
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"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
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"Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head."
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"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
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"I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil."
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"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
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"Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me."
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"In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves."
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."
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"Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong."
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"You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were."
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"Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies."
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