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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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