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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nature
Habit
Spirit
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Day
Harvest
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
Eyes
Man
Open
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Curiosity
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart
Mankind
Tradition
World
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage
The world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Cowards
World
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friend
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love
Influence
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Evil
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Language
Speech
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
Fortune
Worth
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
Books
Poor
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Indigestion