He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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