I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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 can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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