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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

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

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

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

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...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth is wholly experimental

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an...

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an...