Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

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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 less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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Children are certainly too good to be true.

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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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