It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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