Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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