To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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 an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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