You can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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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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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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