Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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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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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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