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 a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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 Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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 obscurest epoch is today.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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