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 STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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When 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.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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