159 ordspråk av Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is but one art, to omit.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser
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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.
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