It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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