There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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When 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.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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