Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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