A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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 world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.
REQUIEM
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?'
Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.'
Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.'
I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain.
Time which none can bind,
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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