Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
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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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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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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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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
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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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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.
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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
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