It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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 idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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