Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

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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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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

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Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

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

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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