To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in 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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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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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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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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