Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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