I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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 world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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