We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in 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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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