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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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