If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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