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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world has no room for cowards.

The world has no room for cowards.