Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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 am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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