Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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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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We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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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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