The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by 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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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