Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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