Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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

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

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

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Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

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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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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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Youth is wholly experimental.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

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Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

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