Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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