Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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