Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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