Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world has no room for cowards.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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