Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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