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.

Robert Louis Stevenson
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  1. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

  2. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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

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

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

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