Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

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Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown- Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

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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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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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