It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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 the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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