No man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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 become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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For my part, 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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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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