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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and...

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and...

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in...

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in...