Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You can't touch pitch and not be mucked.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.
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Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
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...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
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The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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 have kept your soul alive.
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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 world is so full of a number of things
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.