It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end 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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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