Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The true success is to labour.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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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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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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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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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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Everyone lives by selling something.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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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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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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