We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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