We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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