You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery man has a sane spot somewhere.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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