Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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

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

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...