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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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