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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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