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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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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