It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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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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