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?

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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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...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of...

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

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...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I...

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I...

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a...

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a...