Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

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When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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The world has no room for cowards.

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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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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When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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If this is death, it is easier than life.

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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