Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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