Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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