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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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We 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.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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