To 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world has no room for cowards.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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