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.
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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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