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 STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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 travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a 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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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