I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTalk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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