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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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 travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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