I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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