You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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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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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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