The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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