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" By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. "
Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage - Page 32
by Laura Stubbs - 1903 - 58 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 37

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1878 - 814 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done goorl work, although they may...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 44

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1908 - 962 pages
...than he knew, and also consistently and bravely acted up to the gospel he preached in "Жз Triplex." "By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor...push and see what can be accomplished in a week." Those who were near Stevenson at the time when the "Christmas Sermon" was written know under what circumstances...
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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may...
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Virginibus Puerisque: And Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor...not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honor useful labor. A spirit goes out of the man who means execution which outlives the most untimely...
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Vailima Letters, Volume 2

Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1895 - 392 pages
...unremitting toil in the tropic heats he loved. Readers will remember the gallant doctrine of his early essay. 'By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor...execution, which outlives the most untimely end.' In a temper truly accordant with this doctrine he applied himself to his new task, and before it was...
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The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is belter to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good "94 work, although they...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 13

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pages
...it •04 like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may...
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The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is belter to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus puerisque ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts/ have done good work, although they may...
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