All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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You 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?
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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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 never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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