Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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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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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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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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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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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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Take care of each other.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

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