Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

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There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

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By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

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To miss the joy is to miss everything.

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

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O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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