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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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