To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It 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.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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