I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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 an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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