Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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