If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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