It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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