If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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