Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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