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Danh ngôn của Robert Louis Stevenson (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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.
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?
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.