There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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 be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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