Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards

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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

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

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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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 obscurest epoch is to-day.

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

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

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