So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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