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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery man has a sane spot somewhere.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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