Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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