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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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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 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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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 mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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