It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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