There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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