The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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