We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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To 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.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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