Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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