Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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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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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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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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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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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

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Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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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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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

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