Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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

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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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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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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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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

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

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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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