You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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