The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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