So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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 so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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