Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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