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.
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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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