Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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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.
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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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