I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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