Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

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I wish these flies would piss off.

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

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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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