Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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

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Take care of each other.

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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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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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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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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Children are certainly too good to be true.

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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