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.
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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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