If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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