Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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For my part, 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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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