Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

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We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

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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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In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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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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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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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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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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