All Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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
37% of people like this quote
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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