Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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