There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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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.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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