Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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