The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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 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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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