Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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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 better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

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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, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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