Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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One 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.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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