To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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 idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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