Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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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.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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