Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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