When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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