You can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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 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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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