Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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