Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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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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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 child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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

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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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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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