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 STEVENSONThe world has no room for cowards.
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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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