Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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