Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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