Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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