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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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