Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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 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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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