Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Explore 37 sourced quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson. Discover famous, inspirational and timeless words with source information.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Friendship
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Friendship
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Wisdom
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Life
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.
Love
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Love
Wine is bottled poetry.
Wisdom
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Love
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Success
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Wisdom
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Wisdom
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Wisdom
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Wisdom
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Life
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Wisdom
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Wisdom
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Life
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Life
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Wisdom
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Happiness
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Happiness
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Life
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Courage
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