He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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.
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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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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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