We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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