When 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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