Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

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The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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