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.
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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The world has no room for cowards.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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 should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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