Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'
'Wine is bottled poetry.'
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'
Born in Edinburgh, Edinburgh and the Lothians
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