The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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 is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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