The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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