The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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