The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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