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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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 become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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