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 STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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