Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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