There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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