Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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