Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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