Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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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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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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?
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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