The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of 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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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