It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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