If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThat man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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