He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauties, nor failed to express it who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had whose life is an inspiration whose memory a benediction.
More Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson:
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
Who talks to me of reason now?
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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