It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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