Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards

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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

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

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

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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 recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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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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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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