Wisdom Quotes
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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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.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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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.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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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 unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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