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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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