“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson2
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
“It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
“The world has no room for cowards.”
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
“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.”
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
“Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.”
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.”
“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”
“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.”
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”
“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”
“Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.”
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
“The cruellest lies are often told in silence.”
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.”
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
“REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.”
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
“Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.”
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“The essence of love is kindness.”
“So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”
“An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.”
“We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.”
“There is but one art, to omit.”
“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
“He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.”
“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.”
“The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.”
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
“There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”