"I am in the habit of looking not……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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More Gift Quotes
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God…
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm…
— Erykah Badu
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I…
— Erykah Badu
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced…
— Javier Bardem
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
— Bruce Barton
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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