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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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