There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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So long as we are loved by others 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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in 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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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