Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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