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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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