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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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