Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

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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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One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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

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

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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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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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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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