The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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