Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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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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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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