The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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