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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 Stevenson

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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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 STEVENSON

Ambition Attempt Conceive Console Discourage Mediocre Most Pocket Wisdom
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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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit
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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