Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

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I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

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Youth is wholly experimental.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

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

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