Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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