The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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