You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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 a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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