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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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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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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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