Wine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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