The obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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