To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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