If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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 truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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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.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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