In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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 be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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