I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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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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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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