It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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