To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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