There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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