Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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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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