Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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