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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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