Nothing made by brute force lasts.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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 regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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