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Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“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 Stevenson
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. 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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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