The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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