If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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