If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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