There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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