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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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