You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf 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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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