Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEven 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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