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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world has no room for cowards.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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