Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

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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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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

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He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.

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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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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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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

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