Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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