Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

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And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

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Live life to the fullest.

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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