It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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