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 STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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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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