So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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