Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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 hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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There is but one art, to omit.

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The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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