I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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