All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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