To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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