"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on husbands   

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on intelligence and intellectuals
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"If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on labor   

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on fear
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"Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on failure
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"There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on duty
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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

Scott, Sir Walter on deceit
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"Character matters; leadership descends from character."

Limbaugh, Rush on character
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."

Confucius on virtue
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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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, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on death
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"I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on life   

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on lies and lying   

"To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. "

Stevenson, Robert Louis on uncategorised
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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; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on truth   

"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?"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on weakness
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"The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on world   

"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. 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."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on communication
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"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; 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."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on compatibility   

"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel   

"He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on marriage
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"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on life   

"Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on marriage
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"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."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on meditation
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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on money   

"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on morality   

"Everyone lives by selling something."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on sales
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"Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on night
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"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on success
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"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on books - reading
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"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."

Newman, Cardinal J. on perfection
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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