"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
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Source: Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “Virginibus puerisque and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”
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