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 STEVENSONWhen a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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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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