To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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 is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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.
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