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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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