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.
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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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For my part, 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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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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