Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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 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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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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