Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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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 world has no room for cowards.

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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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

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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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

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

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Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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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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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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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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