Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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