The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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