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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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