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Wine is bottled poetry.
Category: Alcohol Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Category: Business Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Category: Failure Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Category: Fear Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Category: Feminism Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Category: Gardens Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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The obscurest epoch is today.
Category: History Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Source: Across the Plains
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If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Category: Jobs Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Category: Language Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
Category: Life Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Category: Life Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Category: Perseverance Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Category: Places Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Category: Self Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Category: Self Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Category: Simplicity Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Category: Success Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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