It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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