You can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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