Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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