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 STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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