It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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