The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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