Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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For my part, 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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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