 | smith elder - 1877 - 802 pages
...delicate homage at the same time. And it is in this latter intention that they are done by lovers ; for the essence of love is kindness ; and indeed it may...speak, run mad and become importunate and violent. Vanity in a merely personal sense exists no longer. The lover takes a perilous pleasure in privately... | |
 | Amy Levy - 1889 - 322 pages
...Joshua Quixano's daughter— was it possible that she cared for none of these things ? CHAPTER XVIII. The essence of love is kindness; and indeed it may be best denned as passionate kindness. RL STEVENSON. THERE is nothing more dear to the Jewish heart than an... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...delicate homage at the same time. And it is in this latter intention that they are done by lovers ; for the essence of *" love is kindness ; and indeed it...speak, run mad and become importunate and violent. Vanity in a merely personal sense exists no longer. The t^"" lover takes a perilous pleasure in privately... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...delicate homage at the same time. And it is in this latter intention that they are done by lovers, for the essence of love is kindness ; and, indeed, it...speak, run mad and become importunate and violent. "\ l^HAT sound is so full of music as one's * * own name uttered for the first time in the voice of... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...delicate homage at the same time. And it is in this latter intention that they are done by lovers, for the essence of love is kindness ; and, indeed, it...speak, run mad and become importunate and violent. A Tl THAT sound is so full of music as one's * * own name uttered for the first time in the voice of... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish essays - 1896 - 248 pages
...delicate homage at the same time. And it is in this latter intention that they are done by lovers ; for the essence of love is kindness ; and indeed it may...speak, run mad and become importunate and violent. Vanity in a merely personal sense exists no longer. The lover takes a perilous pleasure in privately... | |
 | New Thought - 1905 - 612 pages
...earth again shall rise at last; For 'tis the service of the sod, to render God the things of God." "So long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."—Robert Louis Stevenson. "What... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Criticism - 1898 - 702 pages
...function of a man of letters it is not necessary to write ; nay, it is perhaps better to be a living book. So long as we love we serve ; so long as we are loved...indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. The true services of life are inestimable : money, and are never paid. Kind words and caressa high and... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 700 pages
...function of a man of letters it is not necessary to write; nay, it is perhaps better to be a living book. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved...indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. The true services of life are inestimable in money, and are never paid. Kind words and caresses, high and... | |
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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. 
