To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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There 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.
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