Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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