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Us Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken…
- We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
- An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us…
- The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they…
- A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us…
- A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
- Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and…
- But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all…
- You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
- The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
- Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften…
- It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would…
- Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs…
- Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften…
- In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and…
- I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong