Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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 a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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For my part, 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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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