If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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