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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."

"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others."

"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."
Life

"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive."

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"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."
Nature

"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means."

"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."

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes."

"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."

"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."

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."

"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

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