Everyone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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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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