Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?

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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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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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