An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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