So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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