DON’T BLOCK MY HORIZON
Before the days of antibiotics, Robert Louis Stevenson, the great Scottish novelist and author of Treasure Island, was bedridden with consumption. Still, the disease never stifled his optimism. Once when his wife heard him hacking badly, she said to him: “I expect you still believe it’s a wonderful day.” Stevenson looked at the rays of sunshine bouncing off the walls of his bedroom, then said: “I do. I will never permit a row of medicine bottles to block my horizon.”
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