The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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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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