Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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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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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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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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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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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

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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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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

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