When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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