Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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