It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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

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

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.