One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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