All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOne 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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