So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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 become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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