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 STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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