Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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