Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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