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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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