When 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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