The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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