Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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