There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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