It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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