To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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 mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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