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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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