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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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