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.
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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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 world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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