That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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 difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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