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