Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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