To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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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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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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