By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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But 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.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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