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.
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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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 become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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