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 STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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