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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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"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
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TERRY BROOKS The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu...
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JANETTE RALLISON One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
SWEDISH PROVERB One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune
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IAN RANKIN The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - b...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...
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Q'ORIANKA KILCHER TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. ...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous...
ULYSSES S. GRANT The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him b...
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GAIL DEVERS Students in this course work at their own pace.
CAROL KENNEDY All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis mak...
MARY BERRY Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
LAURENCE J. PETER Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
DR LAURENCE J PETER Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
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ALBERT PUJOLS I didn't have to tell nobody to be quiet. Everybody was sitting in his own seat. There wasn't a word...
SONNY SCHOFIELD To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD It's a good thing to see. You want to be cautious about where they are, not push too hard, let them ...
JIM TRACY I like where I'm at, but I have a long way to go. I set a pace and held on to it. I decided to run a...
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation.
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LI PENG For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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MIKE GRIST You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
DAVE WINFIELD It’s this or nothing at all.
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FEREIDOON YAZDI We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duti...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and bo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
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