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Quotations by author » Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author of fiction and travel books, 1850-1894
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
GenerosityGifts
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Life
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Success
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Happiness
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser
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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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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.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor
Travel
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
World
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Vanity
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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.
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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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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Growing up
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