So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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