The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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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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