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 to us our enemies.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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