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 STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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