Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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 cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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