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?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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