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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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

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

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

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

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

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

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

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

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

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

The world has no room for cowards.

The world has no room for cowards.

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies