To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We 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.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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