Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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