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 STEVENSONWe are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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