Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

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When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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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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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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

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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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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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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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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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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

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