Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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There 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.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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