There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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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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