Nothing made by brute force lasts.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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