More quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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