Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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