Tag: Robert Louis Stephenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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Quiet minds can’t 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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So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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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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