You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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