Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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