Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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