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.
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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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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.
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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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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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