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.
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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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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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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