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 STEVENSONWhen it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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