Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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