We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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 one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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