Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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