Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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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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[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

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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 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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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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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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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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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

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