It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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 is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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