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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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