Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

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Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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To miss the joy is to miss everything.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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

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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

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