Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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