"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another…" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
— Theodore Bikel
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
— William Blake
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My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
— Mary J. Blige
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever…
— Dale Carnegie
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes…
— Dale Carnegie
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear…
— Dale Carnegie
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I don't conquer, I submit.
— Giacomo Casanova
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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
— Winston Churchill
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I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve…
— Winston Churchill
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