Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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