To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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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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 can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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