By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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