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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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