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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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 heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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 mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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