Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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