Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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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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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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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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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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Take care of each other.

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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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

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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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