It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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