Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

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Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

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

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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Youth is wholly experimental.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

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