You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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For my part, 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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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