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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they do.
[Il n’y a guère d’homme assez habile pour connoître tout le mal qu’il fait.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶269 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959), ¶269]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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