Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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