He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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