Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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