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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNo man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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