Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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