It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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