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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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