The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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