Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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