It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThat man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in 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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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