Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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