Tag: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson