Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You 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?
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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