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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."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Difference, Man

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Being, May, Present, Sight

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

George Eliot, British Author

Being, Years

"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

Being, Honor, Knight

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

Being, Compliment

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Being, Lonely, Privilege, Struggle

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

Being, Man, Woman

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Being, Books

"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Being, May, Office

Explore more quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

Being, Instinct

"Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres."

Family, Childhood, Interest, Wishes

"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."

Friendship, Eyes

"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

Love, Soul, Being, Instinct

"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."

Christian, Nothing

"I always say beauty is only sin deep."

Beauty, Deep, Sin

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."

Life, Aspirations, Old

"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."

Family, Children, Temperament

"He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it."

Life, Christianity, Fact, Glory