To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in 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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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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