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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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