Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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.

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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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

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We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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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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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

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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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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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