Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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