So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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