It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOne person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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