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.
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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a 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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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 idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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