The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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