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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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