The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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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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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 be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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