Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Lying Quotes

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

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Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

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Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

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The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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Everyone honors the wise.

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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

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Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

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Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

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