The obscurest epoch is today.
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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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