There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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