To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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