Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI 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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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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