To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOne person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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