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.
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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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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.
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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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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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