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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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 regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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