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 STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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