Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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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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I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

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The true success is to labour.

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For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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