A friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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