Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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For my part, 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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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