Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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