Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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