There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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