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More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
