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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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 be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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