The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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For my part, 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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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