Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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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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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 obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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