Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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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 forget oneself is to be happy.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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