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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded 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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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