There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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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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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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