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 STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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