Nothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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 read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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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 forget oneself is to be happy.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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