All Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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 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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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