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.
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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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 regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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