You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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