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 STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It 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.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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