I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
More Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson:
You too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until, nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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