Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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The world has no room for cowards.

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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

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

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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

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