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 STEVENSONYou cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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