"The spirit of delight comes in small ways." — Robert Louis Stevenson

"The spirit of delight comes in small ways."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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More Delight Quotes

This quote is filed under Delight Quotes, one of 1,447 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to… — Teresa of Avila
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from… — Charles Baudelaire
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a… — Joseph Addison
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words… — Venerable Bede

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