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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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