I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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