The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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