An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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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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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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