I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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