Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Virtue
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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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