Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

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If this is death, it is easier than life.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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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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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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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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The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

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