Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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