Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

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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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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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Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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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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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

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Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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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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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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

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