The obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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