Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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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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Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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There is but one art, to omit.

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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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