It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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