I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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