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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

Author   Robert Louis StevensonTopics   Wine Retrospect, Good Act, Shines Ever, Wine, Act, Retrospect Copy Share on Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on Twitter
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“The world has no room for cowards.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  No Cowards, World Courage, Fearless Life, Courage, Life, Fearless
“Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Adult Imagination, Fiction’s Role, Childhood Play, Creativity, Reflection, Joy
“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Idleness Reflection, Creative Rest, Personal Freedom, Philosophy, Freedom, Creativity
“Live life to the fullest.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Fullest Life, Living Fully, Life Embrace, Life, Living, Embrace
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Silent Lies, Cruel Words, Truth Suppressed, Lies, Silence, Truth
“Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Patient Perspective, Beautiful Side, Looked Gently, Perspective, Beauty, Patience
“If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Robbery Journey, Extravagance Gained, Journey Reflection, Travel, Wealth, Reflection
“Forgive me, if I seem to teach, who am as ignorant as the trees of the mountain, but those who learn much do but skim the face of knowledge; they seize the laws, they conceive the dignity of the design – the horror of the living fact fades from their memory. It is we who sit at home with evil who remember, I think, and are warned and pity.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Learning Skim, Ignorant Trees, Evil Memory, Knowledge, Reflection, Memory
“Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Wasted Potential, Literary Quality, Creative Value, Paper, Shakespeare, Nonsense
“It’s a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Military Strategy, Least Expected, Principles, Tactics, Surprise, Reflection
“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Lighthearted Humor, Balanced Perspective, Humor, Levity, Judgement, Relief
“The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Gender Rift, Social Teachings, Widened Gap, Gender, Teachings, Gap
“I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Starting Journey, Family Ties, New Beginnings, Adventure, Personal History, Milestone
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Good Actions, Retrospective Wisdom, Moral Philosophy, Inevitable Choice, Reflection, Virtue
“Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Words Power, Skilled Expression, Perfect Delivery, Words, Power, Expression
“Sit loosely in the saddle.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Freedom, Life Approach, Flexibility, Control, Self-mastery, Adventure
“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Little Shadow, Mystery Companion, Shadow Play, Mystery, Companion, Shadow
“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Great Churches, Cathedral Inspiration, Mountain Scenery, Architecture, Religion, Inspiration
“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Strong Fear, Passion Joy, Intense Living, Fear, Passion, Joy
“Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors today and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!”Author   Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics  Wind Blows, Moors Cry, Martyr Graves, Wind, Martyrs, Memory

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