Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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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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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

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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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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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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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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

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If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

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

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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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