Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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

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

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

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...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand