Give 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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