Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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