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.
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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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