The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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