A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

The world has no room for cowards.

The world has no room for cowards.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that...

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that...

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself...

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself...