Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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Youth is wholly experimental.

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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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

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

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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

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He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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