Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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 like a little judicious levity.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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