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

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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