It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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