Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

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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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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

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We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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