Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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