It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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