Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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