Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world has no room for cowards.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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 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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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 live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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