Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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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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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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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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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

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

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

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

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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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