I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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