Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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For my part, 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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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