Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. So when the earth is alive with gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows.

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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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