Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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 what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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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.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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For my part, 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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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