There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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 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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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