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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
«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»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
breath, common good, duties, grasp, hand and foot, In Your Eyes, nearest, nostril, nostrils, plain, The Path
«To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Generosity,
Gifts
| Keywords:
admiration, envy, generosity, gifts, greatly, possession, rejoice, rich in, unkindness
«Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
banquet, banqueting, banquets, consequences, sits, sooner, sooner or later
«It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.»
«It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
be born, collecting, fortunate, millionaire, shells