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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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So 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.
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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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