There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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