Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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For my part, 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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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