The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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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 a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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