Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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