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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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