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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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