Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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

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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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Youth is wholly experimental.

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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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