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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Life

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

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

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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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.

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Friendship

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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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.

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

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More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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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.

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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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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.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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

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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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

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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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

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

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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Browse 106 quotes attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, listed in the source data as a Scottish Writer, organized around themes such as Life, Friendship, Love. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.