To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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