Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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

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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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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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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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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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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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

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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

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