Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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 difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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