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“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson · Motivation

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Courage

Robert Louis Stevenson

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Love

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage

Robert Louis Stevenson

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Time