Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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