Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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