I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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