The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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