By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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