It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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