You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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