Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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 forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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