Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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 be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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