It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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