Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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