To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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