To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEven 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.
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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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