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 costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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.
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