It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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