An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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