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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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For my part, 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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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