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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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