It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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