To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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 a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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