Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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