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 shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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 travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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I 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.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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