Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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 Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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