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 STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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