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Robert Louis Stevenson


Scottish
November 13, 1850
Writer
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.


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Tags: You Body Spirit
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.


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No man is useless while he has a friend.


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Tags: He Man While
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.


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Tags: Our Old Young
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.


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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.


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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.


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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.


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Tags: You Love Never
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.


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Tags: You Even Nothing
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.


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Tags: Alone Who Man
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.


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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.


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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.


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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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Tags: You Think Will
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Tags: Will Take Care
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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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Tags: Thankful Who Life
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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Tags: Love Many Us
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Tags: Life He Man
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Tags: You Man Need
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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Tags: More Our Than
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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Tags: People Our Them
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Tags: Own Down Human
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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