A Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

Robert Louis Stevenson : Scottish novelist, essayist & poet
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Source: Robert Louis Stevenson's Christmas Sermon
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