There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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