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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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 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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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The 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.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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