It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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