Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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