It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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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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