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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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