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.
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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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