You can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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One 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.
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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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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