If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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