Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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 know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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