Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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 obscurest epoch is today.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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