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 STEVENSONKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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