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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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