Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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