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 STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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 one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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