Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Night Quotes, Men Quotes

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.

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Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

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There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

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A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

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